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Ben Sargent Cartoon: 11.8.04

Role Players Prepare for Convention

Anyone for Dungeons and Dragons?This Saturday, light-up dance pads, role-playing paraphernalia and creative conjuring will sweep into Baldy Hall when SARPA, UB's Strategist and Role Players Association, plans to show off its gaming and role-playing goods to anyone with an open imagination at its annual fall convention.The convention, for which the $3 admission proceeds go to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, will showcase puzzle, card, and role-playing game demos from various companies like Looney Labs and Steve Jackson Games on the first floor of Baldy Hall starting at 1 p.m.

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Women's SwimmingJennefer Brankovsky has been named the Mid-American Conference's women's swimmer of the week.

UB's Republicans Exult As Democrats Regroup

Across the nation Wednesday morning, Republicans cheered and Democrats turned disappointingly from TV broadcasts as the news broke that Sen.

Slim Victory Does Not Vindicate Bush Wrongs

President George Bush claimed victory Wednesday as Senator John Kerry conceded defeat. The nation should brace itself for four more years of disastrous policy.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 11.5.04

Football Looks to Bounce Back Against Kent State

After being handled easily by Marshall two weeks ago, the Bulls are coming off a bye week to host the Kent State Golden Flashes and their premier quarterback, Josh Cribbs.Cribbs leads Kent State (2-6 overall, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) into this game as the reigning MAC-East Offensive Player of the Week after torching Ohio University for three touchdowns on 211 yards through the air and a career-high 223 yards on the ground.

This Weekend In Buffalo

Students Behind Bars

A stroll down Main or Chippewa Streets on a Saturday night will reveal hundreds of university students traipsing in and out of bars, expending precious dollars and even more precious brain cells on a few social drinks, sometimes until 4 a.m.Though not as numerable as those out for a night on the town, there are some students who spend their time behind the bar serving drinks rather than waiting in line to order one.UB students Chris Pliszka and Jillian Czyz are two of those students.Chris Pliszka, a senior majoring in geography, is one busy barkeep.

Growing Pains Continue for Volleyball Team

Fans of the University at Buffalo women's volleyball team must wait at least one day longer for a conference win after the Bulls dropped a four-game match to the Toledo Rockets by the score of 3-1 on Thursday night at Alumni Arena.Looking for a first round bye in the upcoming MAC tournament and coming off of a 3-1 win at Akron last Saturday, the Rockets (16-10 overall, 5-8 MAC) started the first game large and in charge, racking up 10 of the first 11 points scored on their way to a 10-1 lead.

Bell is a Rock Between the Pipes

The sweeper misplays a head ball. The opposing team's forward reads the mistake perfectly. He's on his horse.

Roadie's Coma Inspires Benefit Show

Jeff "Durst" Stranahan lived a normal life until about a year ago. It was then that he began touring the country with his friends, the Buffalo quintet Every Time I Die.

America Voted Right

In response to Ben Cady's column ("Keep Hope Alive, Even if We Lose," Nov. 3) I would like to make a few points of consideration.

Burgio Ponders Judicial Reforms

With less than two months left in the semester, the Student Association E-board is turning its attention to several student affairs issues, starting with the Student-Wide Judiciary.According to SA President Anthony Burgio, there are several SWJ rules and procedures he would like to see changed so that the judicial process works better and is fairer for undergraduates."Basically, the process needs to be more open, more clear, and refined with the needs and rights of students in mind," Burgio said."I think we have to be careful about the notion that just because we're college students, we should be treated differently when charged with a crime," he added.One SWJ change already in the works is to abolish what is called burden of proof, a move supported by both Burgio and SWJ Chief Justice Jodi McGrath.According to McGrath, burden of proof means the weight is on the accused students to prove their innocence."It does put an unfair burden on the defendant, when that's really supposed to be on the university," she said.

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

America is acting like a spoiled child. We all know that child who runs screaming through the store knocking products from shelves, unheeded by his mother's threats, as onlookers roll their eyes and secretly hope the child falls.

Little Measures Have Big Results: Students Get Tips on How to Keep a Clean Room

From schoolwork to jobs, and even in relationships, many college students have mastered the art of doing just enough to get by.

"After Election, A Range of Emotions"

The students in Professor Nathan Kelly's Election Year Politics course were anything but apathetic Wednesday afternoon about the results of the election.The class met a few hours after John Kerry's concession and the expressions of elation and disappointment made it clear that a heated discussion was in store.The mixed reactions of Kelly's class were representative of the rest of the UB community.Arianna Grassia, a junior English major said she shed a few tears of disappointment when the results of the election was announced." I worked really hard to get Kerry elected," she said.Grassia volunteered every night for two weeks before the election making calls to voters in swing states, trying to convince them to vote for Kerry.

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Bulls Prepare For MAC Playoffs

The University at Buffalo men's soccer team has had a roller-coaster season but has once again made the Mid-American Conference playoffs.

Getting Down With The Sequel

UB dance majors have the opportunity to meet young men and women within their field who have not only made dance their career, but also done so in impressive fashion.The Hubbard Street 2 comes to the Center for the Arts on Saturday to do just that.Hubbard Street 2 is a smaller branch of the larger Hubbard Street Dance Chicago main company and was created in 1997.Hubbard Street's repertoire includes Asian, Indian, reggae, percussion-based, classical and techno-themed music.